Abby Borash, Faith Rausch, Charlie Okroi, Layla Waltman
Hour 3, Mrs. Kraus
“The Invisible Knife” An anonymous writer once wrote, “Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, and set themselves free from the fools.” Lily Owens took the “knife” and set herself free from her abusive past with her father, but Lily did not take the journey by herself. The honeybees of Tiburon, South Carolina showed Lily a new path to take. The bees have a great impact on Lily’s new life. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the bees symbolize Lily in several ways. First, other worker bees do not know much about the queen; just as Lily does not know about her mother. The queen bee always stays in the hive and hides from other bees. Lily’s mother was the “queen" of the family and she died before other fellow humans have seen her. “If the queen were smarter, she would probably be hopelessly neurotic. As is, she is shy and skittish, possibly because she never leaves the hive, but spends her days …show more content…
Lily wanted to leave her house because T-Ray was abusive to her. T-Ray was her dad, although he did not treat her like his daughter. “The bee landed on the state map I kept tacked on the wall. I watched it walk along the coast of South Carolina on scenic Highway 17. I clamped the mouth of the jar against the wall, trapping it between Charleston and Georgetown. When I slid on the lid, it went into a tailspin, throwing itself against the glass over and over with pops and clicks, reminding me of the hail that landed sometimes on the windows” (10). Lily had a jar of bees in her room. The bees wanted to leave the jar, but once Lily let them it took them awhile to actually leave. The bees are like Lily in this way because Lily wanted to leave her house, but when she got the chance it took her awhile to actually
Hour 3, Mrs. Kraus
“The Invisible Knife” An anonymous writer once wrote, “Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, and set themselves free from the fools.” Lily Owens took the “knife” and set herself free from her abusive past with her father, but Lily did not take the journey by herself. The honeybees of Tiburon, South Carolina showed Lily a new path to take. The bees have a great impact on Lily’s new life. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the bees symbolize Lily in several ways. First, other worker bees do not know much about the queen; just as Lily does not know about her mother. The queen bee always stays in the hive and hides from other bees. Lily’s mother was the “queen" of the family and she died before other fellow humans have seen her. “If the queen were smarter, she would probably be hopelessly neurotic. As is, she is shy and skittish, possibly because she never leaves the hive, but spends her days …show more content…
Lily wanted to leave her house because T-Ray was abusive to her. T-Ray was her dad, although he did not treat her like his daughter. “The bee landed on the state map I kept tacked on the wall. I watched it walk along the coast of South Carolina on scenic Highway 17. I clamped the mouth of the jar against the wall, trapping it between Charleston and Georgetown. When I slid on the lid, it went into a tailspin, throwing itself against the glass over and over with pops and clicks, reminding me of the hail that landed sometimes on the windows” (10). Lily had a jar of bees in her room. The bees wanted to leave the jar, but once Lily let them it took them awhile to actually leave. The bees are like Lily in this way because Lily wanted to leave her house, but when she got the chance it took her awhile to actually